Home-Delivered Meals and Nursing Home Placement Among People With Self-Reported Dementia: A Pilot Pragmatic Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Home-delivered meals promote food security and independence among homebound older adults. However, it is unclear which of the 2 predominant modes of meal delivery, daily-delivered vs mailed (or drop-shipped) frozen meals, promotes community living for homebound older adults with dementia.

Objective

To assess the risk of nursing home admission within 6 months between homebound individuals receiving daily-delivered vs drop-shipped frozen meals.

Design, setting, and participants

This pilot, multisite, 2-arm, pragmatic clinical trial included older adults with self-reported dementia on waiting lists for meals at 3 Meals on Wheels (MOW) programs in Texas and Florida between April 7 and October 8, 2021, to assess time to nursing home placement.

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SUBMITTER: Thomas KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10733798 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature